Translation: If you use Verizon to connect to the internet, and are experiencing trouble using this website, please know that we are working with their engineers to resolve the problem. "Working with" such a Goliath is relative, and can take time...but you can help.

If you have a Verizon mobile broadband device (e.g. MiFi or other card/router), or you use a smart phone with Verizon service to access this site;

And you are having trouble navigating the forums, loading blog pages, etc., especially after your first visit or after logging in;

3. Reply or send a PM to Admin (aka jerryGdawg) or reply to this topic with your IP address, physical location, device being used, and any other relative information, including but not limited to browser in use, pages visited, time of issue, and any errors reported or on screen notifications.

Hey folks, we'd love it if you could help us escalate this issue with Verizon, if you cannot access Tripawds with their service but can get to it other ways.

Admin spent all morning on the phone with them to pinpoint the connection issue their network is having with our server. In other words, he was banging his head on a brick wall.

Verizon says it's our server. But we have proof from our server data center that it's not. We can access Tripawds on non-Verizon networks, and so can members who don't use Verizon.

Verizon is calling this our problem. But we know it isn't. Can you help us so that they know this is more than just Jim and I complaining? We've been told that technical issues of this type at Verizon don't get fixed properly until Verizon gets enough complaints.

First follow the instructions above to give us your IP Address. We'll make sure you're indeed having this problem.

Next, if you're willing to call Verizon (dial 611 from your Verizon phone) and complain that you can't access Tripawds with their service, we would be so grateful. Here's some language you can use to escalate past the first line operator, who won't know anything about this type of issue. Ask to escalate the call to tier two tech support because you want to speak to someone who understands network engineering. Then say:

"Hi. I believe I'm having networking routing issues. I cannot access one particular website with my Verizon service but can get to it with other networks. The site manager of this site tells me that there is packet loss on certain Verizon networks, but Verizon says there is not. I am calling to log my complaint to you because it is clearly not the website."

I know this might sound daunting to anyone who isn't a geek but we'd sure appreciate any help we can get. Thanks so much!

MYYYYYY. PLEASURE!!!! And on a mich, much smaller scale, I can understand the effing (I learned h ow to spell "that" on this site! Yay!) frustration in dealing with them!!!

And I'll go to BFF Bobby at Verizon too! And I say that seriously as he has helped on more than one occasion when their techies could not...and I'm talking level two also!

Admin Guy, please don't be banging that head of yours too hard! We want to see you scar free at the tripawd pawty. Besides I just ended up crying in frustration everytime I talked to them and they usual k y gave me a free gigabyte! I wasn't doing it in purpose...I was just sooooo frustrated ....and it doesn't hurt as much as banging your head!!!

LOVE YOU MR. AND MRS. ADMIN!!!!

Happy Hannah had a glorious additional bonus time of over one yr & two months after amp for osteo! She made me laugh everyday! Joined April's Angels after send off meal of steak, ice cream, M&Ms & deer poop!

And miracles can happen!! I'll keep an eye out over here in Virginia! I did get kicked off once today...pretty sure it was just the tiny mice from Verizon though. So far today, connection has been fine and not taking forever.

BFF Bobby at Verizon did say he sent the post I showed him you made a couple of weeks ago to several different "contacts" of his who thought could maybe help. I'm gonna find out if he in anyway did help, cuz goodness jnows, he should get props...and a Puppy Latte!

I hope this works for sooo many reasons, ut especially for our beloved Admin Guy! You deserve to see the fruits of your labor on this nightmare!!!

LOVE!!!

Sally and Alumni Happy Hannah and Merry Myrtle too!

Happy Hannah had a glorious additional bonus time of over one yr & two months after amp for osteo! She made me laugh everyday! Joined April's Angels after send off meal of steak, ice cream, M&Ms & deer poop!

benny55 said
Bobby at Verizon did say he sent the post I showed him you made a couple of weeks ago to several different "contacts"...I'm gonna find out if he in anyway did help...

You can let Bobby know it was the Verizon Wireless Technical Advisory Group who first even acknowledged there might be an issue, and they only did this after I sent a letter to our Regional President. Persistence paid off!

There was apparently a problem with the data optimization VzW performs, adversely affecting traffic to certain servers. Who woulda ever thought some little ol' Admin Guy with a three legged dog coulda helped identify that! But we've been working directly with a team of senior network techs to do just that—after about two months of getting nowhere with "support" reps.

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So far so good... We hope this is behind us for sure, and we never have to run traceroutes or try to explain packet loss to anyone who insists our "IP addres is bad" ever again.